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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education</title>
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		<title>Business Models, Faculty Size, Tuition &#8212; and Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I think this post should have preceded yesterday&#8217;s!  The National Jurist today claims that &#8220;The average law school has lowered its faculty-to-student ratio by 22 percent over the past 10 years &#8221; accounting for &#8220;48 percent of the tuition increases&#8221; in that time period.
http://www.nationaljurist.com/content/what-make-rise-faculty-size
Does the claim fit your experience?  Has your faculty size grown?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1263&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Business Models and Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dean just forwarded the announcement below about a contest/series of conferences &#38; working sessions hosted by NY and Harvard Law Schools over the next year to generate ideas about new business models for law schools and concrete steps to implement them.  Though the announcement focuses on &#8220;business models,&#8221;  the first sentence on the webpage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1255&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Externship Conference:  Responding to Changing Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nancymaurer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Externships 5:  Responding to Changing Times
I just returned from this excellent conference in Miami attended by over 150 externship faculty, deans, and administrators.  The Lextern list is buzzing with excitement about meeting the challenges of designing and teaching externships (or Field Placements, as we say in Albany) in changing times, and with praise for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1252&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journal of Legal Education Calls for Third Year Curricular Reform Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Myers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends over at the  Journal of Legal Education are soliciting examples and articles that relate to Third-year curricular reform efforts.  The publishers are looking for information as simple as referrals to websites describing your innovations, or as polished as full journal articles.  Responses should be sent to jle@swlaw.edu.
Hey, and while your at it, why not post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1250&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Experiment with teaching Trusts and Estates, Outcomes-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices & Curriculum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices, Outcomes & Assessment Techniques]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two years, I have served on two distinct but related committees having to do with “the future of legal education.”  Here at William Mitchell, I am on the “Future of Legal Education Task Force,” in which capacity I contributed to writing a lengthy report on “Outcomes-based education,” portions of which have appeared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1246&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Law Journal Covers Student Learning Outcomes Discussion</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/02/22/national-law-journal-covers-student-learning-outcomes-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAW SCHOOLS
Holding schools accountable
ABA is pushing educators to prove their law graduates can cut it. by Karen Sloan
February 22, 2010
When 3,500 legal educators convened in New Orleans for the Association of American Law School&#8217;s annual meeting in January, one topic dominated the conversation: the American Bar Association&#8217;s attempts to add &#8220;student learning outcomes&#8221; to its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1242&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clinical Theory Workshop 25th Anniversary Celebration and Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dear members and friends of the Clinical Theory Workshops:
             I’m happy to tell you that this year, 2010, marks the 25th anniversary of the Clinical Theory Workshop series. In honor of this birthday, I propose to throw a party – that is, to hold a conference – and I’m writing to invite you to participate.
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		<title>Calling All &#8220;Contracts&#8221; Professors:  What&#8217;s your favorite coursebook?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/02/17/calling-all-contracts-professors-whats-your-favorite-coursebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have been implementing Best Practices and Carnegie reforms, many of us have created or have made creative use of  coursebooks which facilitate Best Practices learning and teaching.     One of my colleagues will be teaching Contracts for the first time this fall,  she has extensive practice experience and has excelled at clinical supervision and clinical pedagogy.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1237&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of Great Stuff from CLEA &#8212; Check it out</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/02/15/lots-of-great-stuff-from-clea-check-it-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Kim Connolly and Larry Spain:
The February, 2010 issue of the CLEA Newsletter has been published and posted on the CLEA website, http://www.cleaweb.org.  It can be found under the What’s Happening Tab. This will also give you an opportunity to explore the new CLEA website.  which we are calling 1.0 for now, because it is as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1234&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices for Legal Education in Monterrey, Mexico</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/02/14/best-practices-for-legal-education-in-monterrey-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    The States in Mexico are, one by one, revising their criminal law and criminal procedure codes to change from an inquisitional, written system to an adversarial system with oral trials.  Of course, this transformation is a major change in their legal culture.  And, the law school leaders in Mexico [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1231&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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